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THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO<br/>
<span class=large>TIMOTHY</span>
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CHAPTER 5
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Saints are to care for their worthy poor—Policies concerning elders are set forth.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="1_tim/5/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Chastening."><span class='smallcaps'>Rebuke</span></a> not an elder, but <sup>b</sup><a href="1_tim/5/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Respect.">intreat</a> <i>him</i> as a father; <i>and</i> the younger men as brethren;
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The elder women as mothers; the younger as <sup>a</sup><a href="1_tim/5/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Brotherhood and Sisterhood.">sisters</a>, with all purity.
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Honour <sup>a</sup><a href="1_tim/5/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Widows.">widows</a> that are widows indeed.
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But if any widow have <sup>a</sup><a href="1_tim/5/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Children.">children</a> or <sup>b</sup><a href="1_tim/5/4b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR grandchildren, descendants.">nephews</a>, let them learn first to shew <sup>c</sup><a href="1_tim/5/4c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Family, Love within; TG Respect.">piety</a> at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
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Now she that is a widow indeed, and <sup>a</sup><a href="1_tim/5/5a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR left alone.">desolate</a>, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
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But she that liveth <sup>a</sup><a href="1_tim/5/6a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR wantonly.">in</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="1_tim/5/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Pleasure.">pleasure</a> is dead while she liveth.
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And these things <sup>a</sup><a href="1_tim/5/7a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR instruct, command.">give</a> in charge, that they may be blameless.
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But if any <sup>a</sup><a href="1_tim/5/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Family, Children, Responsibilities toward; TG Family, Managing Finances in; TG Marriage, Husbands.">provide</a> not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
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Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years <sup>a</sup><a href="1_tim/5/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Old Age.">old</a>, having been the wife of one man,
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Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have <sup>a</sup><a href="1_tim/5/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Acts 16: 15 (14-15).">lodged</a> strangers, if she have <sup>b</sup><a href="1_tim/5/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Washing.">washed</a> the saints’ <sup>c</sup><a href="1_tim/5/10c" mark="c" type="H" title="JST 1 Tim. 5: 10  . . .  clothes  . . .">feet</a>, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
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But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
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Having <sup>a</sup><a href="1_tim/5/12a" mark="a" type="R" title="GR judgment, condemnation; TG Damnation.">damnation</a>, because they have cast off their first faith.
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And withal they learn <i>to be</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="1_tim/5/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Idleness.">idle</a>, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and <sup>b</sup><a href="1_tim/5/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Gossip.">busybodies</a>, speaking things which they ought not.
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I <sup>a</sup><a href="1_tim/5/14a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR desire.">will</a> therefore that the younger <sup>b</sup><a href="1_tim/5/14b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Wives; TG Woman.">women</a> marry, bear <sup>c</sup><a href="1_tim/5/14c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Children.">children</a>, guide the <sup>d</sup><a href="1_tim/5/14d" mark="d" type="A" title="Titus 2: 5 (4-5).">house</a>, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
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For some are already turned aside after Satan.
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If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them <sup>a</sup><a href="1_tim/5/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Welfare.">relieve</a> them, and let not the church be <sup>b</sup><a href="1_tim/5/16b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR burdened down, troubled.">charged</a>; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
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Let the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_tim/5/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Elders.">elders</a> that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
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For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not <sup>a</sup><a href="1_tim/5/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 25: 4.">muzzle</a> the ox that treadeth out the corn.  And, The <sup>b</sup><a href="1_tim/5/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Labor.">labourer</a> <i>is</i> worthy of his <sup>c</sup><a href="1_tim/5/18c" mark="c" type="R" title="GR wage; TG Wages.">reward</a>.
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Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three <sup>a</sup><a href="1_tim/5/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 19: 15.">witnesses</a>.
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Them that sin <sup>a</sup><a href="1_tim/5/20a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Chastening.">rebuke</a> before all, that others also may fear.
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I charge <i>thee</i> before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect <sup>a</sup><a href="1_tim/5/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Angels.">angels</a>, that thou observe these things <sup>b</sup><a href="1_tim/5/21b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR apart from prejudice.">without</a> preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="1_tim/5/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Setting Apart.">Lay</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="1_tim/5/22b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Hands, Laying on of.">hands</a> suddenly on no <sup>c</sup><a href="1_tim/5/22c" mark="c" type="A" title="1 Tim. 3: 10.">man</a>, neither be <sup>d</sup><a href="1_tim/5/22d" mark="d" type="A" title="2 Jn. 1: 11.">partaker</a> of other men’s sins: keep thyself <sup>e</sup><a href="1_tim/5/22e" mark="e" type="A" title="James 1: 27 (22-27).">pure</a>.
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Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
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Some men’s sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some <i>men</i> they <sup>a</sup><a href="1_tim/5/24a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR appear later.">follow</a> after.
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Likewise also the good works <i>of some</i> are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.
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